I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.

Middle school's amazing. It is extraordinary. An extraordinary time.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.